It’s a beautiful Friday in autumn and I am here to share some drama with all of you: the story of two big, beautiful female elephants whose long-simmering resentments boiled over into an all-out brawl ...

Going online used to be an event. My early online experience was probably similar to many of our old millennial readers like me: I went into the house’s Computer Room, booted up the PC, waited the ...

The early stages of each new NBA season are a time for widespread optimism and excitement. Many young players around the league will further establish themselves among the sport's elite: Paolo ...

At some point early in the third quarter of Thursday night’s great game between the Cincinnati Bengals and Baltimore Ravens, ...

We have a pretty good idea that neither the Baltimore Ravens nor Cincinnati Bengals are going to the Super Bowl, if only because they’re both far too fun to survive the difficult December/January ...

An electoral defeat like the one just suffered by Kamala Harris and the Democratic Party is guaranteed to keep the ...

More than Freddie Freeman or Francisco Lindor or those Yankee jamokes who tried to rip off Mookie Betts’s hand, I will ...

Each weekday, I send out a newsletter called The Cipher to Defector Pal-level subscribers, which has a recap of the blog day, ...

There are times when the lag between when we record The Distraction (on Tuesday mornings) and when it goes up (the first ...

If you are looking for some wonder and whimsy from the animal kingdom to lift your spirits this week—some uplifting tale of a shrew that is so small that it sails on gusts of wind, or a fossil of an ...

Drew Magary’s Thursday Afternoon NFL Dick Joke Jamboroo runs every Thursday at Defector during the NFL season. Got something ...

As loyal readers of Defector know, I am never wrong. I’ve certainly never written an article that was eventually proven to be ...